The Area Development Initiative to Grow YSI: History, Impact, Current Status and Future Development
The Work of the Local Leaders: How do they make a difference?
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The thematic examples that follow are organised within several broad categories gleaned from an examination of the work of local leaders over the past three years. Taken in their entirety, and presented in their own words, the perceptive “stories” they tell encapsulate the centrality of their skill sets as relationship-based professionals. These video clips amply demonstrate the essential role local leaders have played in growing and sustaining effective youth-led social innovation across Ireland.
Activating youth engagement and amplifying youth voice
Charlotte Bishop gives an account of celebrating preliminary research and thoughtful reflection with students in interaction with students. (2020/21)
Eileen Costello Rawat discusses amplification of young people’s voice as she sought to integrate parallel processes within CYPSC, Comhairle na Nog, and YSI. (2020/21)
Angela Horgan recounts her efforts to bring focus to a project that focuses on multi-culturalism and inclusion, including planning, logistics, priority-setting, procuring funding, identifying opportunities and promoting their work with the County Council. (2021/22)
Susan O’Reilly shares some observations about working directly with young people in a workshop around sustainable development goals (SDGs), illustrating how she elicits ideas, links them to young people’s experience and helps them personalise problem-solving. (2022/23)
Fiachra Keogh recounts his work supporting young people in participative democracy by building linkages to Public Participation Networks within local authorities (a programme sponsored by the Department of Rural and Community Development). (2021/22)
Eileen Costello Rawat contemplates the meaning of youth empowerment in youth-led social innovation when considered in a developmental context. (2020/21)